英语-安徽省安庆市第一中学2014-2015学年高一上学期期中考试英语试题

第一卷((选择题 共115分)

第二部分：英语知识运用(共两节．满分45分)

第一节：语法和词汇知识(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

21. Let’s go to________ cinema. That will take your mind off the problem for________ moment. A. the; a B. the; the C. a; the D. a; a

22. The top leaders of the two countries are holding talks in a friendly ________. A. situation B. occasion C. state D. atmosphere 23. --------Why are you looking so tired?

--------Finishing my paper________ most of the weekend. I didn’t get a good rest. A. turned up B. made up C. picked up D. took up 24. ------The last one________ pays the meal. ------Agreed!

A. arrived B. arrives C. to arrive D. arriving 25. Hiking by oneself can be good for ________ building. A. friendship B. character C. respect D. career

26. Last Sunday Penny challenged me ________ a game of badminton. A. of B. to C. for D. with

27. We need to get to the airport before 7:00 tomorrow morning as the plane________ early. A. leaves B. is going to leave C. is to leave D. leaves 28. -------- When shall we restart our business? -------- Not until we ________ our plan.

A. will finish B. are finishing C. are to finish D. have finished 29. Sheldon, make sure the tables________ before the guests arrive. A. are set B. be set C. set D. are setting

30. --------Please tell Leonard he has won the first prize in the physics contest. --------________! He never did so well before.

A. Congratulations B. Good luck C. That’s right D. What a good surprise

31. ________ puppy love, Mr. Su always arranges for beautiful girl student to be his desk mate. A. Preventing B. Prevented C. To prevent D. Being prevented

32. --------Mr. Liu is going to sing at the New Year’s party. Isn’t that awesome? --------_________. Last year he almost killed most of his students with his song. A. I couldn’t agree more B. Come off it C. You are right D. Cheer up

33. Compared with the graduates of Blue Fly Technical School, the graduates of Tsinghua

University are not that skilful when________ excavators(挖掘机). A. operating B. operates C. operated D. to operate

34. --------Where are Peter and Bob? It’s their turn to dance Little Apple. --------Don’t worry. I ________ and get them.

A. will go B. am going C. am to go D. go

35. With tears ________ his eyes, Howard shouted, “Leave me alone. Just let me be a quiet pretty

boy.”

A. to fill B. were filled C. filling D. filled

第二节：完形填空(共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，

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The Fitting-in of Suzy Khan

The first time I saw Suzy Khan, I knew I had to help her. She was really small for her age of 12. The boy in my class often 36 about her and laughed their heads off. She would open a book, pretending to read, with tears dropping on the open page.

All I knew was that she was an orphan (孤儿) from Africa. She had just been adopted by a family in town who 37 that the best way for her to learn American ways of life was to be with american kids. I looked down at this 38 girl and promised myself that somehow I would help her. But how could I help her __39__ in with us? There had to be a __40__ . One day, when I went into the classroom, I saw that Suzy had __41__ her geography book to a picture of a train, and in her notebook, she had made a(n) __42__ copy. I was surprised and thought that she could do something in the coming __43__ show. So, I took her to see the art teacher, Miss Parker, and showed her what Suzy had __44__ . “Why, it’s wonderful,” said Miss Parker, who then showed us a poster she had painted __45__ the talent show. “I need more of these, but I just don’t have enough __46__ . Could you help me, Suzy?”

On the day of the talent show, Suzy’s __47__ were everywhere ---- all over the hall and all over the school, each one different.

“And finally,” said Mr. Brown, the schoolmaster, at the end of the show, “we have a (n)__48__ award. I’m sure you’ve all noticed the wonderful posters.” Everyone nodded. “One of our own students __49__ them.” I could hear everyone whispering. “Who in our school could draw __50__ well?”

Mr. Brown waited a while before saying, “ __51__ this student worked so hard on the posters, she deserves a __52__ ,too. Our mystery(神秘) artist is our new student ---- Suzy Khan!”

Mr. Brown thanked her for all the wonderful posters and gave her a professional artist’s set. “Thank you,” she cried.

I __53__ , at that time when I was looking at her excited face, she’d probably never __54__ anything in her whole life.

Everyone started to __55__ their hands. Suzy Khan gave them a shy smile and the applause was deafening. I knew then Suzy was going to be all right.

36. A. joked B. cared C. forgot D. worried 37. A. reported B. decided C. complained D. questioned 38. A. rich B. proud C. tiny D. popular 39. A. come B fall C. fit D. tie 40. A. manner B. pattern C. choice D. way 41. A. read B. taken C. opened D. put 42. A. free B. perfect C. final D. extra 43. A. art B. talk C. quiz D. talent 44. A. colored B. written C. carved D. drawn 45. A. at B. after C. for D. around 46. A. room B. time C. paper D. interest 47. A. gifts B. books C. photos D. posters 48. A. special B. academic C. national D. royal 49. A. painted B. found C. printed D. collected 50. A. very B. that C. quite D. too 51. A. If B. Though C. Unless D. Since 52. A. prize B. rank C. rest D. place 53. A. replied B. realized C. remembered D. regretted 54. A. offered B. valued C. owned D. controlled 55. A. clap B. wave C. raise D. shake

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第三部分：阅读理解 (共20小题；每小题1.5分, 满分30分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

It was Mother’s Day morning last year and I was doing my shopping at our local supermarket with my five-year-old son, Tenyson. As we were leaving, we found that only minutes earlier an elderly woman had fallen over at the entrance and had hit her head on the floor. Her husband was with her, but there was blood everywhere and the woman was embarrassed and clearly in shock.

Walking towards the scene, Tenyson became very upset about what had happened to the couple. He said to me, “Mum, it’s not much fun falling over in front of everyone.”

At the front of the supermarket a charity group had set up a stand selling cooked sausages and flowers to raise funds. Tenyson suggested that we should buy the lady a flower. “It will make her feel better,” he said. I was amazed that he’d come up with such a sweet idea. So we went over to the flower seller and asked her if we could buy a flower for the lady to cheer her up. “Just take it,” she replied. “I can’t take your money for such a wonderful gesture.”

By now paramedics（救援人员）had arrived, and were attending to the injured woman. As we walked up to her, my son became intimidated by all the blood and medical equipment. He said he was just too scared to go up to her.

Instead I gave the flower to the woman’s husband and told him, “ My son was very upset for your wife and wanted to give her this flower to make her feel better.”

At that, the old man started crying and said, “Thank you so much, you have a wonderful son. Happy Mother’s Day to you.”

The man then bent down and gave his wife the flower, telling her who it was from. Though badly hurt and shaken, the old lady looked up at Tenyson with love in her eyes and gave him a little smile.

56. What dose the author intend to tell us?

A. One can never be too careful.

B. A small act of kindness brings a great joy. C. Love begins with a little smile. D. Actions speak louder than words.

57. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. The elderly woman was knocked down by Tenyson.

B. Tenyson’s care for the elderly woman puzzled the flower seller. C. Tenyson’s idea of buying a flower gained his father’s support. D. The elderly woman was moved to tears by Tenyson’s gesture.

58. The underlined word “intimidated” in the fourth paragraph probably means “___________”.

A. astonished B. struck C. frightened D. excited 59. What would be the best title for the passage?

A. An Embarrassing Moment B. Mother’s Day

C. An Accidental Injury D. Flower Power

B

Perhaps you think you could easily add to your happiness with more money. Strange as it may seem, if you're unsatisfied, the issue(问题) is not a lack of means to meet your desires but a lack of desires—not that you cannot satisfy your tastes but that you don't have enough tastes.

Real riches consist of（由---组成） well-developed and hearty capacities (能力) to enjoy life.

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Most people are already swamped(淹没) with things. They eat, wear, go and talk too much. They live in too big a house with too many rooms, yet their house of life is a hut.

Your house of life ought to be a mansion (豪宅) , a royal palace. Every new taste, every additional interest, every fresh enthusiasm adds a room. Here are several rooms your house of life should have.

Art should be a desire for you to develop simply because the world is full of beautiful things. If you only understood how to enjoy them and feed your spirit on them, they would make you as happy as to find plenty of ham and eggs when you're hungry.

Literature, classic literature, is a beautiful, richly furnished room where you might find many an hour of rest and refreshment(恢复精力). To gain that love would go toward making you a rich person, for a rich person is not someone who has a library but who likes a library.

Music like Mozart's and Bach's shouldn't be absent. Real riches are of the spirit. And when you've brought that spirit up to where classical music feeds it and makes you a little drunk, you have increased your thrills（激动；狂喜）and bettered them. And life is a matter of thrills.

Whateve

r rooms you might add to your house of life, the secret of enjoying life is to keep adding. 60. The author intends to tell us that____________.

A. true happiness lies in achieving wealth by fair means

B. big houses are people's most valued possessions（财产） C. true happiness comes from spiritual riches D. big houses can in a sense bring richness of life

61. The underlined sentence in the second paragraph probably implies that__________.

A. however materially rich, they never seem to be satisfied B. though their house is big, it seems to be a cage C. though their house is big, they prefer a simple life D. however materially rich, they remain spiritually poor 62. It can be learned from the passage that __________.

A. literature can enrich your spiritual life B. art is needed to make your house beautiful C. more money brings more happiness

D. sports contribute mainly to your physical fitness 63. What would be the best title for the passage?

A. Secret of Wealth B. House of Life

C. Rest and Refreshment D. Interest and Enthusiasm

C.

As more and more people speak the global languages of English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing. In fact, half of the 6,000-7,000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

In an effort to prevent language loss, scholars（学者） from a number of organizations —UNESCO and National Geographic among them—have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect（反映）.

Mark Turin, a scientist at the Macmillan Centre Yale University, who specializes in the languages and oral traditions of the Himalayas, is following in that tradition. His recently published

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book, A Grammar of Thangmi with an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers and Their Culture, grows out of his experience living, working, and raising a family in a village in Nepal.

Documenting the Thangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin, who seeks to include other languages and oral traditions across the Himalayan reaches of India , Nepal, Bhutan, and China . But he is not satisfied to simply record these voices before they disappear without record.

At the University of Cambridge Turin discovered a wealth of important materials—including photographs, films, tape recordings, and field notes—which had remained unstudied and were badly in need of care and protection.

Now, through the two organizations that he has founded—the Digital Himalaya Project and the World Oral Literature Project—Turin has started a campaign to make such documents, found in libraries and stores around the world, available not just to scholars but to the younger generations of communities from whom the materials were originally collected. Thanks to digital technology and the widely available Internet, Turin notes(指出), the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities.

. Many scholars are making efforts to ______.

A. promote global languages B. search for language communities

C. rescue disappearing languages D. set up language research organizations. 65. What does “that tradition’ in Paragraph 3 refer to ?

A. Living with the native speakers. B. Writing books on language teaching. C. Telling stories about language users D. Having full records of the languages 66. What is Turin’s book based on?

A. His personal experience in Nepal. B. The documents available at Yale. C. His language research in Bhutan. D. The cultural studies in India

67. Which of the following best describes Turin’s work?

A. Write, sell and donate. B. Collect, protect and reconnect. C. Record, repair and reward. D. Design, experiment and report.

D

A schoolgirl saved her father's life by kicking him in the chest(胸口) after he suffered a serious allergic (过敏的) reaction which stopped his heart..

Izzy, nine, restarted father Colm's heart by stamping (踩) on his chest after he fell down at home and stopped breathing.

Izzy's mother, Debbie, immediately called 999 but Izzy knew doctors would never arrive in time to save her father, so decided to use CPR（心肺复苏）.

However, she quickly discovered her arms weren't strong enough, so she stamped on her father's chest.

Debbie then took over with some more conventional(通常的) chest compressions (按压) until the ambulance arrived.

Izzy, who has been given a bravery award by her school, said: \"I just kicked him really hard. My mum taught me CPR but I knew I wasn't strong enough to use hands. I was quite scared. The doctor said I might as well be a doctor or a nurse. My mum said that Dad was going to hospital with a big footprint on his chest.

\"She's a little star,\" said Debbie, \"I was really upset but Izzy just took over. I just can't believe

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what she did. I really think all children should be taught first aid. Izzy did CPR then the doctor turned up. Colm had to have more treatment on the way to the hospital and we've got to see an expert.\"

Truck driver Colm, 35, suffered a mystery allergic reaction on Saturday and was taken to hospital, but was sent home only for it to happen again the next day. The second attack was so serious that his airway swelled(呼吸道肿胀), preventing him from breathing, his blood pressure dropped suddenly, and his heart stopped for a moment. He has now made a full recovery from his suffering. 68. Izzy kicked her father in the chest ______ .

A. to express her helplessness B. to restart his heart C. to keep him awake D. to practice CPR on him

69. What's the right order of the events?

①Izzy kicked Colm. ②Debbie called 999. ③Izzy learned CPR. ④Colm's heart stopped.

A.③①②④ B.④②③① C. ④③①② D. ③④②① 70. What does Paragraph 8 mainly talk about?

A. What Colm suffered. B. Colm's present condition.

C. What caused Colm's allergy. D. Symptoms(症状) of Colm's allergic reaction. 71. Why does the author write the news?

A. To describe a serious accident. B. To prove the importance of CPR.

C. To call people's attention to allergic reaction. D. To report a 9-year-old girl's brave act.

E

Scientists today are making greater effort to study ocean currents (洋流) . Most do it using satellites and other high-tech equipment. However, ocean expert Curtis Ebbesmeyer does it in a special way---by studying movements of random(随意的) floating(漂浮的) garbage. A scientist with many years’ experience, he started this type of research in the early 1990s when he heard about hundreds of athletic shoes washing up on the shores of the northwest coast of the United States. There were so many shoes that people were setting up trading fairs(交换集市) to try and match left and right shoes to sell or wear.

Ebbesmeyer found out in his researches that the shoes — about 60,000 in total — fell into the ocean in a shipping accident. He phoned the shoe company and asked if they wanted the shoes back. As expected, the company told him that they didn't. Ebbesmeyer realized this could be a great experiment. If he learned when and where the shoes went into the water and tracked（追踪；监测） where they landed, he could learn a lot about the patterns of ocean currents.

The Pacific Northwest is one of the world's best areas for beachcombing(海滩搜寻) because winds and currents join here, and as a result, there is a group of serious beachcombers in the area. Ebbesmeyer got to know a lot of them and asked for their help in collecting information about where the shoes landed. In a year he collected reliable information on 1, 600 shoes. With this data, he and a colleague were able to test and improve a computer program designed to model ocean currents, and publish the findings（研究结果） of their study.

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72.

Ebbesmeyer phoned the shoe company to find out _____________.

A. what caused the shipping accident

B. when and where the shoes went missing C. whether it was all right to use their shoes D. how much they lost in the shipping accident

73. How did Ebbesmeyer prove his assumption（假定）?

A. By collecting information from beachcombers. B. By studying the shoes found by beachcomber. C. By searching the web for ocean currents models. D. By researching ocean currents data in the library. 74. Ebbesmeyer is most famous for ___________________.

A. traveling widely the coastal cities of the world B. making records for any lost objects on the sea C. running a global currents research association D. phoning about any doubtful objects on the sea

75. What is the purpose of the author in writing this passage?

A. To call people's attention to ocean pollution. B. To warn people of shipping safety in the ocean. C. To explain a unique way of studying ocean currents.

D. To give tips on how to search for lost objects on the beach.

第四部分：写作(共两节。满分25分)

第一节 任务型阅读（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。

Learning a language can be a difficult task for some people. Some people seem to have a skill for learning languages. They can pick up new vocabulary, master rules of grammar, and learn to write in the new language more quickly than others. So what makes language learning so much easier for them? Perhaps if we take a close look at these successful language learners, we may discover a few of the techniques which make language learning easier for them.

First of all, successful language learners are independent learners. They do not depend on the book or the teacher merely; they discover their own way to learn the language. Instead of waiting for the teacher to explain, they try to find the patterns and the rules by themselves. They are good guessers who look for clues and form their own conclusions. When their guesses are wrong, they guess again. They try to learn from mistakes.

Successful language learning is active learning. Therefore, successful learners do not wait for a chance to use the language; they look for such a chance. They find people who speak the language and they ask these people to correct them when they make a mistake. They will try their best to communicate with others. They are not afraid to repeat what they hear or to say something strange；they are willing to make an attempt and try again. When communication is difficult, they can accept information that is inexact or incomplete. It is more important for them to learn to think in the language than to know the meaning of every word.

Finally t successful language learners are learners with a purpose. They want to learn the

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language because they are quite interested in the language and the people who speak it. Others work in foreign countries. It is necessary for them to learn the language in order to communicate with these people and to learn from them. They find it easy to practice using the language regularly because they want to learn it. Learning Successful language learners Unsuccessful language learners techniques ＊Discover their own learning way. ＊Depend on the book or the Learn ＊Find patterns and rules on teacher merely. independently their (76)___. ＊Wait for the teacher's (78)___. ＊Form their own (77)___. ＊Learn from their mistakes. ＊Make use (80)___every chance to practice the language. ＊Wait for chances to use the Learn (79)_____ ＊Try to find people (81)___ language. the language and ask them to correct their mistakes. ＊Be willing to make an ＊Be afraid of repeating what they attempt and try again. hear. Repeat ＊Accept information that is ＊Try to know the meaning of not exact or (82) ___. every word. ＊Think in the language. ＊Have a strong (84)___ in the language. Learn with a ＊Be not interested in it. ＊Communicate with people in (83)_____ ＊Rarely practice the language. foreign countries and practice the language (85)___. 第二节 书面表达(满分15分)

书面表达：（满分15分）

你所在的班级将要举办一次主题为“What Can We Do for Our School?”的英语演讲比赛。请写一篇英语演讲稿，要求从以下四方面中任选一至二个进行阐述，并举例加以说明。 1.关心他人；2.美化校园；3.爱护学校设施；4.营造良好的学习氛围。注意：提示词：设施 facilities 1.不要在书面表达中出现所在学校的班名和本人姓名，否则本节判为零分；2.词数：120左右； 3.开头和结尾已经写好，且不记入词数。

Hello, everyone. It’s nice to speak about what we can do for our school, and I think each of us can do something.

___________________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________

Thank you for listening!

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2014~2015学年第一学期高一期中英语试题参

（满分100分）

完型填空（每小题1分，共20分）

36~40 ABCCD 41~45 CBDDC 46~50 BDAAB 51~55 DABCA

阅读理解（每小题1.5分，共30分）

56~59 BCCD 60~63 CDAB ~67 CDAB 68~71 BDAD 72~75 CADC

任务型阅读（每小题1分，共10分） 76. own 77. conclusions 78. explanation(s)/explaining 79. actively 80. of 81. speaking 82. complete 83. purpose/aim 84. interest 85. regularly

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